Young Goodman Brown is a character in "Young Goodman Brown," who leaves his known world in Salem village and travels an unknown road in a dark forest in the middle of the night, a common motif in literature better known as the Hero's journey, and is faced withobstacles. ... He represents the previously unrecognized evil nature of Young Goodman Brown, possibly the devil himself. ... The abyss in "Young Goodman Brown" is when he sees his wife, Faith. ... Young Goodman Brown returns to his home the next morning as a new man. ... Even Young Goodman Brown's " dying hour was gloom" (pg. 10...

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• Grade Level: High School

In this short story "Young Goodman Brown,"" Nathaniel Hawthorne creates an image of innocence compromised in the face of the evil of the world. The way the story is presented leaves a question open as to whether Young Goodman Brown's experience was real or a vision. ... Throughout this paper Hawthorne's own life and Puritanical beliefs are exhibited in his novel "Young Goodman Brown."" ... In 1835, "Young Goodman Brown- was published, which was one of the early stories that he included in Twice-Told Tales. ... And here comes Goodman Brown. ...

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In the short story, "Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the witch Goody Cloyse, is recorded saying that her broomstick "hath strangely disappeared". ... Their names had been "cried out" by tormented young girls as the cause of their pain. ...

• Word Count: 1287
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• Grade Level: High School